Special thanks to Werner Heuser,
who has encouraged me to write this betaversion of a
report, and whose helpful tips make it possible to work with Linux
on laptop!

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Marc Haisenko <mhaisenko_at_janet.de> wrote:
I experience some strange behaviour with the WebBoy and APM, e.g. when
going standby and awakening, the keyboard does not respond any more (but
minicom correctly receives data via z-modem on ttyS0 ;-)

Sebastian Boettcher wrote: "Because the integrated modem is a winmodem, a special driver is needed; this one I found
at
Heavy Metal II(http://www.modem-help.freeserve.co.uk/chips/amb563.html)
- BUT: This driver doesn't compile under Kernel 2.4.x, so I'am trying to rewrite it's sources.
Don't expect me to success. "

Just in the prolog I've have announced that this is a beta-version
of a report. Just in the moment not all problemns are resolved!-
but we're working on that. (In all I'll talk in a plural mode
because Mr. W. Heuser is and was a helpful compain!)

SuSE's Yast2 does not work, no graphics will appear on the display.
Yast1 works fine, but after rebooting the system the first time,
there are problems with the PCMCIA-Configuration. You see a message
like 'Startin SuSE PCMCIA scheme' for a long time and nothing else
happend.

The German version of RedHat has other bugs (f.e. problems with
the keyboard), the installation on that laptop works, there are
problems with the X-Configuration, but that's not a RedHat
problem.

Now I'm working with the Debian GNU/Linux 2.2. I have no
problems with the installation although it was my first experience
with the Debian distribution. See the next section for resolving
the X-Configuration, with the LAN-driver I've no problems. Modem-
and Soundconfiguration will follow.

The first problem was the standars XF86_SVGA-Driver. In all modes,
and I've tried many - I've reached a satisfied solution. The only
way it works is with Framebuffer and here is the
XF86Config-File(XF86Config_3_gericom_webboy.html).

Important: Now the SiS-Company offeres a website for
Linux-Users, and ther You can find also an new xsis-driver: You
find this under:
SiS(http://www.sis.com.tw)
.
They offers also other
solutions for sound and modem a.s.o.

See also the Frame-Buffer-HowTo(http://www.tldp.org) and if you have to recompile your
Kernel take a look in your documentation how to do that!
Before you restart your laptop make sure, that the xfbdev is
installed. I'm using a solution of 1024x768 with 16bpp. For that I
have to change my LILO-Configurationfile lilo.conf: vga=0x317 (For
that you must look at the FrameBuffer-HowTo - there you find a
table which will explain the different modes).
Here is the XF86Config - File:
Starting the X-Window-System:

~$ startx wmaker -- -bpp 16

IMPORTANT: You can only start with the solution specified in
your lilo.conf!!! (Look at the Frame-Buffer-HowTo for details)